BTO Bird ID videos - Wetland species

Divers in winter can be confusing and difficult to identify. Let this video help you to confidently separate Red-throated, Black-throated and Great Northern Divers.

Young Kittiwakes have a distinctive wing pattern, but several sought-after rarer species have similar markings - how can you tell them apart?

Redshank are common and noisy year-round coastal residents, but can you confidently identify their scarcer cousins, Greenshank and Spotted Redshank?

Identifying skuas passing offshore in late summer is one of the great challenges of bird ID. However, with practice most individuals can be identified.

Learn some invaluable tips to tell apart these two waders with down-curved beaks.

25 years ago the sighting of any White Heron in the UK would have been greeted with excitement. While Little Egret is now relatively common, it can sometimes be confused at distance with a much rarer visitor - Great White Egret.

From Great Crested and Red-necked to Slavonian and Black-necked, separating grebes in winter plumage can be challenging. This identification video from the BTO discusses all the features to help identify them with confidence.

Telling winter waders apart can be daunting. If you are keen to find rarer species, you need to be familiar with two key common species: Knot and Dunlin.

Identifying the two large sawbills, Goosander and Red-breasted Merganser, can be pretty straight-forward when confronted with male birds. However, the females, or redheads as they are more often called, can be much more difficult.

The latest identification video tackles the difficult pair of gulls, Iceland and Glaucous. March is one of the best months of the year to catch up with wandering gulls as they make their way back to their summer haunts.

In this BTO identification video we look at the tricky pairing of Wood and Green Sandpipers. The key identification features to separate these two similar species are discussed, including structure, plumage and voice.

This video rounds up the identification of other Terns - Roseate, Sandwich and Little Tern.

In this, the sixth in our series of identification videos, we look at how to tell Common and Arctic Tern apart, focusing on the ID features on perched birds and how to separate them in flight.

Learn to identify grey geese with our first Bird ID guide.